Why do we get Dysfunctional IT Systems

Reports of unusable IT systems are commonplace, and the latest of a long line is the police service’s new PUST system. Hundreds of millions of kronor are spent developing systems that eventually are canceled due to occupational safety and health issues. Why is it so hard to commission and develop these systems? Are there any good examples of ones that do what they set out to? Are the public procurement regulations to blame, is the technology inadequate, or do the users simply not know what they want?

This year's LUCAS Day will focus on software procurement, taking an open-minded approach to discussions about potential causes and solutions to the issue. Perhaps we can even identify possible new areas of research on the topic. As is customary, we will also present current research and results from the software research projects at LTH.

Program

• The Hajen Question Answering System (Pierre Nugues/Marcus Klang) [More info]
  
• Using Kojo to teach kids how to program (Maj Stenmark/Björn Regnell)[More info]
  
• Control Strategies For Predictable Brownouts In Cloud Computing (Martina Maggio) [More info]
  
• Load-balancing For Cloud Applications With Brownout (Martina Maggio) [More info]
  
• SCALARE - SCALing softwARE (Ulf Asklund & Martin Höst) [More info]
  
• EASE for Industrial Excellence in Software (Per Runeson m fl) [More info]
  
• Finding gaps in requirements-test communication (Elizabeth Bjarnason) [More info]
  
• Automation in the bug flow: machine learning for triaging and tracing (Markus Borg)[More info]
  
• The need to reconsider WLAN access schemes, beyond CSMA Emma Fitzgerald LTH-EIT
  
• Demos of Mobile Robot and Robot Programmed with Natural Language (Klas Nilsson et al) [More info]
  
• Wireless Connectivity for ultra-portable devices and Internet of Things (Henrik Sjöland LTH-EIT)
  
• Low-power design in the IoT-perspective (Joachim Rodrigues LTH-EIT)
  
• Challenges in Test and Reliability (Dimitar Nikolov LTH-EIT)
  
• Mobile Communications going Massive (Ove Edfors LTH-EIT)
  
• mm-Wave technology and 5G (Daniel Sjöberg LTH-EIT)
• A Control-theoretical Approach To Thread Scheduling For Multicore Processors (Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos) [More info]
  
• Content management in a world of user generated content, efficient cacheing and replication strategies (Saeed Bastani LTH-EIT)

Short presentations from software related research projects and groups at LTH:

•  Research project HIPEC (Krzysztof Kuchcinski)
•  MAPCI - First Year Activity Report (Sten Minör)
•  The ITaCiH-project (Boris Magnusson) 
•  The Graphics Group (Tomas Akenine-Möller/Michael Doggett)
•  Vision@math (Kalle Åström)
•  The Software Engineering and Research Group and project EASE (Per Runeson)
•  Software research at Department of Automatic Control (Karl-Erik Årzén)
•  Robotics and Semantic Systems Research Group and the robotics lab (Klas Nilsson)

Lunch is not included in the registration.

Please register for the inauguration cermony in advance here: http://www.mobileheightscenter.com